To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.
I have this philosophy that A and B students work for C students.
It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.
I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.
This is what Baylor is all about,. . This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.
For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.
Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.
It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds.
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.
Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it.
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.
They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income. . . Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.
I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.
Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.
[James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker.
I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.